Bureau of Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero will not
tolerate any illegal acts of any BoC employee under his watch- he wants results
true to their mandate.
And boy did they deliver- bigtime!, government agents raided seven
warehouses in Zambasulta (Zamboanga-Basilan-Sulu-Tawi-Tawi) area recently,
which yielded around 160,000 sacks of rice and thousands bags of sugar which
are all believed to be smuggled into the country.
Agents from the military and customs agents armed with seven letters of
authority inspected the seven warehouses on November 9 and 15.
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“A total of 100,000 sacks of rice and 30,000 bags
of sugar with estimated value of P160 million were uncovered inside the Almali
Marketing, one of the raided warehouses.
Other warehouses inspected were Hadji Warid Warehouse 1, 2
and 3; Minham, Minham 2; and Jundilan Warehouse 1 and 2.
Baliwasan Warehouse 1 yielded 30, 090 sacks of rice and 20
bags of sugar worth P30 million while Baliwasan Warehouse 2 has 28,000 bags of
rice worth P56 million.”
Port of Zamboanga district collector Segundo Sigmundfreud Barte
will give the owners 15 days to present legal and pertinent documents
supporting the shipments, failure to do so will result to warrant of seizure
and detention will be issued against the shipments.
Back-to-back operations
BoC is on a roll because after the raid of seven warehouses , three
cargo vessels yielded thousands sacks of rice and several cartons of cigarettes
allegedly to be smuggled into the country through the waters off Zamboanga were
discovered.
A result of an intelligence report, the team up between the Customs
bureau, the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
(ISAFP), and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) inspected three cargo vessels off
Zamboanga believed to be loaded with smuggled goods.
“M/V Hulk” was found to have a total of 50,000 sacks of rice
worth P50 million, while “RJ Express” was found to have in its
possession 5,081 sacks of rice worth P5.081 million.
While the third vessel “M/V
Maria Rebecca” was found to have 85 cartons of cigarettes worth P4.9 million.
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